07 Aug 1900
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Newspaper
Rock Island Argus
Location
Rock Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1900
Page
1
Daylight attacks near Peltesog drive Chinese from trenches as 16 000 Allied troops including the 14th and th regiments Really'a battery and marines participate in heavy fighting. Reports from London and Rome describe ongoing battles, casualty tallies, and Allied maneuvers amid a broader China theater.
A Minnesota event opens in calm conditions at 3 p m with the Red Coat taking an early lead and pushing to the windward position before extending the advantage as the Red Coat gains distance across the water.
Georgetown Ky Aug 7 R O D Benjamin the negro attorney for Tallow Dick Combs and the alleged conspirators in Goebel’s assassination arrived from Lexington with a Combs letter claiming Combs’ confession was correct but that Youtsey offered not 1200 but several hundred dollars. A Combs kin reports finding Hockersmith in New Orleans or San Francisco and says he has been paid to stay hidden, with ample funds supplied to hide him.
Chicago records four deaths and several prostrations by 1 PM as 90 degree heat persists. In Pittsburgh one death and seven prostrations in the past 24 hours follow intense heat. Mills and factories suffer with workers, including many women forced to quit work.
A long, fragment laden dispatch notes Kruger’s willingness to surrender if the final destination is promised. The item mixes several brief notes from Pretoria, Lafayette, and other places, including rail collision fatalities, a German Reichstag figure’s death, and assorted obituaries and society items. The jumble cites a rail crash near Lafayette killing a freight engineer and three others, and mentions Dr. Leibknecht’s death in Berlin alongside normal school trustee appointments in Illinois.
A witness in an Irish court speaks fondly of Charles Philips as counsel on the opposite side. He is asked why he barks furiously and replies because. The dialogue ends with a remark about a man who does not like the game of checkers. Speerritt Journal.
Springfield notes report Governor Tanner's replies to Chicago coopers seeking abolition of convict labor at Joliet state pen and calls for reform. Also Chicago attorneys discuss amendments to special assessment law, municipal electric and water works ownership, and long term contracts with a proposed Will to address extreme statutes.
Willison Bryan democratic presidential nominee arrives in Chicago at 9 30 am with wife and son Guv and Mrs Thomas of Colorado and Col John J Martin. Local committee meets them at the depot and escorts to Sherman house where Adlai E Stevenson joins for a reception. The Bryan Stevenson party departs for Indianapolis at 1 30 pm.
Col Bryan traveled toward Indianapolis amid calm reception in Lincoln via the rear Pullman sleeper. A few Bryan friends were at the station but no speech or crowd demanded, while General O O Howard arrived from Chicago to greet him briefly before Bryan left for Omaha.
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